ISSUE 0.6

Black and White with a Trace of Pink

This issue is called "Black and White" because I somehow picked a ton of images for this issue that almost all happened to be black and white, and then a bunch of images that are pretty pink. Content-wise, it's a nice smattering of underground web, killer robot, cybercrime, and e-culture goodness. Enjoy.

Frankly, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. We've had the technology to do this since we've had guns, Arduino, and quadcopters. Then again, it's probably been happening, but without being uploaded to YouTube for the internet to see.

This experimental material can change its surface texture between smooth, bumpy, ridged, or channeled based by applying pressure to it. Why would you want this? My mind leaps to certain applications like adventure or military wear being able to shift between different textures based on different environments.

Krebs on Security does a thorough (but bite-sized) breakdown of the different leaders of the underground cybercrime forum Darkode, including a particularly interesting individual who was apparently trying to social engineer other criminals into revealing their identities.

Two weeks ago a million federal fingerprint files were compromised by hackers. That's pretty bad, considering that fingerprints are probably the most established biometric that we trust for official things. This article runs over what could be done with those fingerprints.

Ever since reading the article on the rise of the stream, I've hated the idea more and more. The stream, the everflowing content that finds you the same stuff everyone else is looking at, or the things that the big publishers can make people look at. It's the tradeoff we make for ease of use. But I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.

There are so many great things hidden in plain sight across the wide and large internet. It's like an ocean; immeasurably deep and vast, but beyond the surface, almost invisible, difficult to see. But that's the way the web used to be, too. You'd go exploring, diving, spelunking, into the net and see what sort of wild websites you could find. Nowadays, it's easy to look at the same stuff that everyone else is looking at - and we all know you are what you read/watch.

Decentralization is important because it makes us broader explorers and thinkers. Effort is important because it forces us to process and grow. I'm going to try and go on more webventures.

Way's Notes

Hey there!

Is this already the seventh issue? Time keeps on moving. I started reading a really good book about the Stuxnet virus that I highly recommend if you're into that sort of thing.

RAMBLING: I'd love to make a web exploring tool of some sort that allowed you to really find things on the net. But instead of through hyperlinks, it would be through people. Maybe you could see a huge network of people's links to other people's links, but with a twist - in the entire system, a given domain isn't allowed to be linked to more than 5 times. So users have to find unique links, forcing them to look far and wide. And then you could trawl it, getting back that old feeling. I love stumbling upon a webserver that's just a directory. I love exploring it. I find that fascinating.

Anyways! I hope you're having a great week. If it's not great, I hope it gets better.

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